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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

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1125 points CrankyBear | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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bhouston ◴[11 Nov 25 20:02 UTC] No.45892071[source]▶
I would suggest that FFmpeg spin up a commercial arm that gets support contracts with Google, Amazon, etc, but with a tight leash so that it does not undermine the open source project. Would need clean guidance as to what the commercial arm does and does not.

Probably could pull in millions per year.

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1. garciasn ◴[11 Nov 25 20:06 UTC] No.45892128[source]▶
While I don't think FFmpeg's response is a great one ("fund us or stop submitting bugs"); I think Google is being pretty shitty here. For a company that prides itself in its engineering prowess and contributions to the OSS community (as they like to remind me all the time) to behave this way is just all around shitty.

Submit the bug AND the patch and be done with it; don't make it someone else's problem when it's an OSS library/tool. A for-profit vendor? Absolutely. But this? Hell naw.